Congratulations to our graduates and academic prize winners

Geography and Environmental Science graduation took place on July 18th and the Department of Geography warmly congratulates all our graduates. A reception and prize giving was held afterwards in the Department of Geography for graduates and their families, and group photographs were taken in Weston Park. Photographs are can be viewed on our 2013 alumni page (see link, below).

Our special guest at the reception was Vanessa Lawrence CB, a graduate of the department who is now Director General and CEO of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency. Vanessa awarded academic prizes to some of our outstanding graduates and spoke of the value of having studied for a Geography degree at Sheffield, which had given her the ‘building blocks’ needed to begin her career.

Our academic prize winners are listed in full below. Congratulations to them all!

Academic prizes 2013

Hart Prize for the level 3 student who has brought the most credit to the departmentSian Parkinson (BA Geography) & Wenhui Wu (BSc Environmental Science)

RS Waters Physical Geography Prize for best overall performance in Physical Geography at Levels 2 and 3 (excluding the dissertation) by a student reading Single GeographySuzanne Cobourne (BSc Geography)

Hart Human Geography Prize for best overall performance in Human Geography at Levels 2 and 3 (excluding the dissertation) by a student reading Single GeographyNick O'Quinn (BA Geography)

Laverick-Webster-Hewitt Prize for the overall best performance in the final examination of a student reading Environmental ScienceEwan Marshall-Harries (MEnvSci Environmental Science)